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Russia's bitter path to modernity : a history of the Soviet and post-Soviet eras /

Основен автор: Chubarov, Alexander.
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : Continuum, c2001.
Предмети:
Soviet Union > History.
Russia (Federation) > History > 1991-
Онлайн достъп: Table of contents
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Съдържание:
  • Machine generated contents note: Preface 1
  • Introduction 5
  • Part One: The Background19
  • 1. "Old Regime" Russia21
  • Geopolitical Evolution of the Russian State 21
  • Paradoxes of Tsarist Russia 23
  • 2. Political Culture 31
  • "Too Asiatic for the Europeans and too
  • European for the Asians" 32
  • Egalitarianism and Communalism 34
  • "Orthodoxy-Autocracy-Nationality" 36
  • Russian Contemporary Political Culture 38
  • 3. Soviet Ideology 41
  • Main Tenets of Classical Marxism 41
  • Marxism-Leninism 44
  • Marxism versus Human Nature 45
  • 4. The Soviet Political System50
  • Dictatorship of the Proletariat 50
  • "All Power to the Soviets!" 51
  • The Party of a New Type 52
  • The "Party-State" 54
  • The Nomenklatura 58
  • 5. Soviet Nationalities61
  • The "Red Federated Empire" 61
  • Sorting out the "Nationalities Question" 65
  • 6. Serfdom-Capitalism-Socialism72
  • Russia's Early Experience with Capitalism 72
  • Tsarist Industrialization 74
  • The Command Economy 76
  • Part Two: The Socialist Experiment81
  • 7. The Beginnings of the Socialist Transformation83
  • Consolidating One-Party Dictatorship 83
  • Civil War and War Communism: 1918-20 84
  • New Economic Policy: 1921-28 89
  • 8. "Great Leap" to Socialism92
  • The Rise of Stalin 92
  • The Industrialization Debate: 1925-28 94
  • Collectivization of Agriculture 97
  • 9. Stalinism101
  • Industrialization 101
  • Five-Year Plans 103
  • Characteristics of Stalinism 106
  • 10. From World War to Cold War111
  • The Soviet-German Nonaggression Pact 111
  • The Great Patriotic War: 1941-45 115
  • Turning the Tide 119
  • Stalinism versus Fascism 122
  • The Onset of the Cold War 125
  • 11. Khrushchev and De-Stalinization130
  • Stalin's Legacy 130
  • The "Secret" Speech 133
  • "Khrushchevism" 138
  • 12. Brezhnev's "Mature" Socialism 143
  • Advent of Brezhnev 143
  • Roots of Stagnation 145
  • The Soviet Decline 147
  • 13. Cracks in the Soviet Monolith151
  • Models of Soviet/Russian Power 151
  • The Rise of Cultural and Academic Pluralism 154
  • Dissidence 159
  • Totalitarianism with Corporatist and Pluralist Subsystems 163
  • Part Three: From Reform Socialism to Deformed Capitalism167
  • 14. The Command Economy in Crisis169
  • Internal and External Pressures for Economic Reform 169
  • Gorbachev's Perestroika 171
  • Perestroika's Economic Strategies and Their Results 174
  • 15. The Collapse of the Political System179
  • "Democratization" and "New Thinking" 179
  • The Course of Political Reform 181
  • Results of Political Reform 187
  • 16. Unraveling the Unitary State190
  • The Rise of Popular and Nationalist Movements 190
  • Key Factors in the USSR's Collapse 194
  • 17. Return to a Market Economy198
  • "Shock Therapy" and Its Consequences 198
  • Nomenklatura Privatization 203
  • "Crony Capitalism" 205
  • 18. Handicaps of Russia's Capitalist Transformation210
  • The Role of National Characteristics 210
  • The "Survival" Economy 214
  • 19. The Yeltsin Era219
  • "Democrator" 219
  • Parties and Elections 224
  • Yeltsin's Legacy 231
  • 20. Russia in Search of an Identity237
  • The Commonwealth of Independent States 237
  • Post-Soviet Geopolitics 239
  • Russian Federalism 243
  • The Chechen Problem 246
  • 21. Prospects for the New Century254
  • Who Is Putin? 254
  • Recentralizing the State 259
  • "Deprivatizing" the State 263
  • "Controlled" Democracy 269
  • Notes 277
  • Selected Bibliography of English-Language Sources285
  • Selected Bibliography of Russian-Language Sources302
  • Index 311.

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